The European Physical Journal D (EPJ D)

Colloquium

Entanglement or separability: the choice of how to factorize the algebra of a density matrix p. 181

W. Thirring, R.A. Bertlmann, P. Köhler and H. Narnhofer

Published online: 22 September 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20452-1

Atomic Physics

Charge state effect on K-shell ionization of aluminum by 600–3400 keV xenon^q+ (12 < q < 29) ion collisions p. 197

Z.Y. Song, Z.H. Yang, G.Q. Xiao, Q.M. Xu, J. Chen, B. Yang and Z.R. Yang

Published online: 23 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20173-5

Energies, Auger and radiative probabilities of the doubly-excited 1s²3l3l′ states for Be-like neon p. 203

C.C. Sang, Y.F. Jiao, Y. Sun and B.C. Gou

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20179-y

Experimental investigation of the hyperfine spectra of Pr I – lines: discovery of new fine structure levels with low angular momentum p. 209

K. Shamim, I. Siddiqui and L. Windholz

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20250-9

Molecular Physics and Chemical Physics

Nature of M-Ng interaction in the MNg₄²⁺ (M = Cu, Ag and Au; Ng = He and Ne) molecules: ab initio calculations p. 221

X. Li and X. Cao

Published online: 17 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20124-2

The states 1¹Σ_u⁺, 1¹Π_u and 2¹Σ_u⁺ of Sr₂ studied by Fourier-transform spectroscopy p. 227

A. Stein, H. Knöckel and E. Tiemann

Published online: 13 September 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20229-6

On the actual nature of the anti-ferromagnetism shown by unrestricted calculations on conjugated hydrocarbon rings p. 239

E. San-Fabián and F. Moscardó

Published online: 29 September 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20290-1

Spin-orbit effects in the ground X²Π state and two low-lying excited valence states B²Π and L^′2Φ for NO p. 249

Y.F. Gao, M.J. Wan, X.G. Wu, X.W. Zeng and T. Gao

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20276-y

Atomic and Molecular Collisions

ns → n′s transition of hydrogen atom by positron impact with screened Coulomb interactions p. 257

S. Nayek and A. Ghoshal

Published online: 23 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20166-4

Electron and positron scattering from atomic potassium p. 269

K. Ratnavelu and W.E. Ong

Published online: 06 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20099-x

A variational adiabatic hyperspherical finite element R matrix methodology: general formalism and application to H + H₂ reaction p. 287

M.N. Guimarães and F.V. Prudente

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20227-8

Energy-loss straggling study of proton and alpha-particle beams incident onto ZrO₂ and Al₂O₂ films p. 297

M. Behar, R.C. Fadanelli, I. Abril, R. Garcia-Molina and L.C.C. Nagamine

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20352-4

Electron-impact ionization of atomic hydrogen: dynamical variational treatment p. 303

P. Defrance, T. Kereselidze, J. Lecointre and Z.S. Machavariani

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20285-x

Electron capture by fast protons from helium-like ions p. 311

R. Samanta and M. Purkait

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20252-7

Experimental determination of the scattering length for positron scattering from krypton p. 317

A. Zecca, L. Chiari, E. Trainotti, D.V. Fursa, I. Bray and M.J. Brunger

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20333-7

Clusters and Nanostructures

Geometries and electronic properties of Nb_nV^{(0, ±1)} (n = 1−6) clusters studied by density-functional theory p. 323

X.X. Jin, J.G. Du, G. Jiang, X. Luo and X.W. Wang

Published online: 17 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20018-3

Oxygen impact on quantum confinement effect for silicon clusters in different size regimes: ab initio investigations p. 331

S. Chakraborty, Ch. Rajesh, S. Mahamuni and S.V. Ghaisas

Published online: 17 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-10456-2

Non-monotonic shift of the SPR band due to radiative coupling of two dimensional gold nano-particle arrays p. 339

S.W. Bai, J. Zhu, J. Wang and L. Yuan

Published online: 17 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-10501-2

Size-dependent study of Rb and K clusters using core and valence level photoelectron spectroscopy p. 347

M.-H. Mikkelä, M. Tchaplyguine, K. Jänkälä, T. Andersson, C. Zhang, O. Björneholm and M. Huttula

Published online: 13 September 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20239-4

Cluster modeling of three types of double-walled armchair silicon carbide nanotubes p. 353

K. Adhikari and A.K. Ray

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20280-3

Plasma Physics

A study of shear flows induced by nonlinear evolution of double tearing modes in Hall magnetohydrodynamics p. 365

X.X. Li, X.Q. Lu, X.Y. Gong and Q.H. Huang

Published online: 05 July 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20106-4

The effects of ion-neutral collision frequency on the plasma sheath dynamics for oblique entrance of ions into the sheath p. 369

S.F. Masoudi

Published online: 17 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-10534-5

Arbitrary amplitude dust acoustic solitary waves in a dusty plasma with an ion beam p. 375

S.K. El-Labany, W.F. El-Taibany, N.A. El-Bedwehy and M.M. El-Fayoumy

Published online: 23 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20135-y

Analysis of plasma photonic crystal with a tunable band gap using parallel method p. 387

H.W. Yang and D. Xu

Published online: 29 July 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20010-y

Characteristics of plasma Beltrami states p. 393

B.K. Shivamoggi

Published online: 02 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-10585-6

Interpretation of tearing mode physics from ECE temperature fluctuations associated with magnetic islands and Mirnov signals p. 405

D. Brunetti, E. Lazzaro, F. de Luca, S. Nowak and G. Gervasini

Published online: 13 September 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20223-0

Head-on collision of ion acoustic solitary waves in electron-positron-ion plasma with superthermal electrons and positrons p. 413

P. Chatterjee and U.N. Ghosh

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20155-7

Arbitrary magnetosonic solitary waves in spin 1/2 degenerate quantum plasma p. 419

A. Mushtaq and S.V. Vladimirov

Published online: 06 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20374-x

Growth and properties of Ti-Cu films with respect to plasma parameters in dual-magnetron sputtering discharges p. 427

V. Stranak, H. Wulff, R. Bogdanowicz, S. Drache, Z. Hubicka, M. Cada, M. Tichy and R. Hippler

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20393-7

Influence of plasma chemistry on oxygen triplets p. 437

V. Milosavljević, A.R. Ellingboe and S. Daniels

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20213-2

New longitudinal waves in electron-positron-ion quantum plasmas p. 447

N.L. Tsintsadze, L.N. Tsintsadze, A. Hussain and G. Murtaza

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20332-8

Spatial heterogeneity of the double-pulse laser plasma of copper alloys p. 453

E. Voropay and K. Ermalitskaia

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20215-0

Cold Matter and Quantum Gases

Analytical solutions for two heteronuclear atoms in a ring trap p. 459

X. Chen, L.M. Guan and S. Chen

Published online: 23 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20201-6

Thermodynamic properties of a rotating Bose gas in harmonic trap p. 465

A.S. Hassan, A.M. El-Badry and S.S.M. Soliman

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20249-2

Matter rogue wave in Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive atomic interaction p. 473

L. Wen, L. Li, Z.D. Li, S.W. Song, X.F. Zhang and W.M. Liu

Published online: 06 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20485-4

Nonlinear Dynamics

Center or limit cycle: renormalization group as a probe p. 479

A. Sarkar, J.K. Bhattacharjee, S. Chakraborty and D.B. Banerjee

Published online: 17 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20060-1

Robust dynamical recurrences based on Floquet spectrum p. 491

M. Ayub, K. Naseer and F. Saif

Published online: 11 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20170-8

Optical Phenomena and Photonics

A geometric-optical phase space formulation for paraxial light beam propagation p. 499

B.X. Chen and X.L. He

Published online: 02 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-10597-2

Visualization of propagation of boundary diffraction wave p. 505

C.K. Gamini Piyadasa

Published online: 02 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20176-2

Quantum Optics

Emission spectra and intrinsic optical bistability in a two-level medium p. 511

M.G. Gladush, D.V. Kuznetsov and Vl.K. Roerich

Published online: 06 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20194-0

Quantum Information

Quantum dissonance induced by a thermal field and its dynamics in dissipative systems p. 521

Z.X. Man, Y.J. Xia and N.B. An

Published online: 05 July 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-10683-5

Teleportation of the one-qubit state with environment-disturbed recovery operations p. 531

M.L. Hu

Published online: 27 July 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20062-y

Error self-correction in the tri-node indirect teleportation of a qutrit state with two partially entangled qutrit states p. 539

Z.Y. Zhang, Y.M. Liu, W. Zhang and Z.J. Zhang

Published online: 02 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-10369-0

Dynamics of quantum discord in two Tavis-Cummings models with classical driving fields p. 549

Y.Q. Zhang and J.B. Xu

Published online: 17 August 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20012-9

Entanglement evolution in multipartite cavity-reservoir systems under local unitary operations p. 557

W. Wen, Y.-K. Bai and H. Fan

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20191-3

Dynamics of quantum discord for two correlated qubits in two independent reservoirs at finite temperature p. 565

L. Xu, J.B. Yuan, Q.S. Tan, L. Zhou and L.M. Kuang

Published online: 04 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20195-y

An improved quantum repeater protocol using hyperentangled state purification p. 573

C. Wang, H.Q. Ma, R.Z. Jiao and Y. Zhang

Published online: 29 September 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20262-5

Simple adaption of measurements for qudit estimation p. 579

C.J. Happ and M. Freyberger

Published online: 06 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20367-9

Dynamical behavior of entanglement, purity and energy for two atoms in the presence of dissipation p. 585

Y.Q. Zhang and L. Tan

Published online: 06 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20188-x

Ultraintense and Ultrashort Laser Fields

Gauge independent theory applied to a model of atomic ionization by an intense laser pulse p. 593

V.D. Rodríguez and R.O. Barrachina

Published online: 06 October 2011

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2011-20212-3

EPJ

The European Physical Journal D

Volume 64 / No 2-3 (October 2011)

Colloquium

Entanglement or separability: the choice of how to factorize the algebra of a density matrix p. 181

Atomic Physics

Charge state effect on K-shell ionization of aluminum by 600–3400 keV xenonq+ (12 < q < 29) ion collisions p. 197

Energies, Auger and radiative probabilities of the doubly-excited 1s23l3l′ states for Be-like neon p. 203

Experimental investigation of the hyperfine spectra of Pr I – lines: discovery of new fine structure levels with low angular momentum p. 209

Molecular Physics and Chemical Physics

Nature of M-Ng interaction in the MNg42+ (M = Cu, Ag and Au; Ng = He and Ne) molecules: ab initio calculations p. 221

The states 11Σu+, 11Πu and 21Σu+ of Sr2 studied by Fourier-transform spectroscopy p. 227

On the actual nature of the anti-ferromagnetism shown by unrestricted calculations on conjugated hydrocarbon rings p. 239

Spin-orbit effects in the ground X2Π state and two low-lying excited valence states B2Π and L′2Φ for NO p. 249

Atomic and Molecular Collisions

ns → n′s transition of hydrogen atom by positron impact with screened Coulomb interactions p. 257

Electron and positron scattering from atomic potassium p. 269

A variational adiabatic hyperspherical finite element R matrix methodology: general formalism and application to H + H2 reaction p. 287

Energy-loss straggling study of proton and alpha-particle beams incident onto ZrO2 and Al2O2 films p. 297

Electron-impact ionization of atomic hydrogen: dynamical variational treatment p. 303

Electron capture by fast protons from helium-like ions p. 311

Experimental determination of the scattering length for positron scattering from krypton p. 317

Clusters and Nanostructures

Geometries and electronic properties of NbnV(0, ±1) (n = 1−6) clusters studied by density-functional theory p. 323

Oxygen impact on quantum confinement effect for silicon clusters in different size regimes: ab initio investigations p. 331

Non-monotonic shift of the SPR band due to radiative coupling of two dimensional gold nano-particle arrays p. 339

Size-dependent study of Rb and K clusters using core and valence level photoelectron spectroscopy p. 347

Cluster modeling of three types of double-walled armchair silicon carbide nanotubes p. 353

Plasma Physics

A study of shear flows induced by nonlinear evolution of double tearing modes in Hall magnetohydrodynamics p. 365

The effects of ion-neutral collision frequency on the plasma sheath dynamics for oblique entrance of ions into the sheath p. 369

Arbitrary amplitude dust acoustic solitary waves in a dusty plasma with an ion beam p. 375

Analysis of plasma photonic crystal with a tunable band gap using parallel method p. 387

Characteristics of plasma Beltrami states p. 393

Interpretation of tearing mode physics from ECE temperature fluctuations associated with magnetic islands and Mirnov signals p. 405

Head-on collision of ion acoustic solitary waves in electron-positron-ion plasma with superthermal electrons and positrons p. 413

Arbitrary magnetosonic solitary waves in spin 1/2 degenerate quantum plasma p. 419

Growth and properties of Ti-Cu films with respect to plasma parameters in dual-magnetron sputtering discharges p. 427

Influence of plasma chemistry on oxygen triplets p. 437

New longitudinal waves in electron-positron-ion quantum plasmas p. 447

Spatial heterogeneity of the double-pulse laser plasma of copper alloys p. 453

Cold Matter and Quantum Gases

Analytical solutions for two heteronuclear atoms in a ring trap p. 459

Thermodynamic properties of a rotating Bose gas in harmonic trap p. 465

Matter rogue wave in Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive atomic interaction p. 473

Nonlinear Dynamics

Center or limit cycle: renormalization group as a probe p. 479

Robust dynamical recurrences based on Floquet spectrum p. 491

Optical Phenomena and Photonics

A geometric-optical phase space formulation for paraxial light beam propagation p. 499

Visualization of propagation of boundary diffraction wave p. 505

Quantum Optics

Emission spectra and intrinsic optical bistability in a two-level medium p. 511

Quantum Information

Quantum dissonance induced by a thermal field and its dynamics in dissipative systems p. 521

Teleportation of the one-qubit state with environment-disturbed recovery operations p. 531

Error self-correction in the tri-node indirect teleportation of a qutrit state with two partially entangled qutrit states p. 539

Dynamics of quantum discord in two Tavis-Cummings models with classical driving fields p. 549

Entanglement evolution in multipartite cavity-reservoir systems under local unitary operations p. 557

Dynamics of quantum discord for two correlated qubits in two independent reservoirs at finite temperature p. 565

An improved quantum repeater protocol using hyperentangled state purification p. 573

Simple adaption of measurements for qudit estimation p. 579

Dynamical behavior of entanglement, purity and energy for two atoms in the presence of dissipation p. 585

Ultraintense and Ultrashort Laser Fields

Gauge independent theory applied to a model of atomic ionization by an intense laser pulse p. 593

Conference announcements

Charge state effect on K-shell ionization of aluminum by 600–3400 keV xenon^q+ (12 < q < 29) ion collisions p. 197

Energies, Auger and radiative probabilities of the doubly-excited 1s²3l3l′ states for Be-like neon p. 203

Nature of M-Ng interaction in the MNg₄²⁺ (M = Cu, Ag and Au; Ng = He and Ne) molecules: ab initio calculations p. 221

The states 1¹Σ_u⁺, 1¹Π_u and 2¹Σ_u⁺ of Sr₂ studied by Fourier-transform spectroscopy p. 227

Spin-orbit effects in the ground X²Π state and two low-lying excited valence states B²Π and L^′2Φ for NO p. 249

A variational adiabatic hyperspherical finite element R matrix methodology: general formalism and application to H + H₂ reaction p. 287

Energy-loss straggling study of proton and alpha-particle beams incident onto ZrO₂ and Al₂O₂ films p. 297

Geometries and electronic properties of Nb_nV^{(0, ±1)} (n = 1−6) clusters studied by density-functional theory p. 323